Success of students' gun control walkout bodes well for March for Our Lives

[mentalfloss]

Success of students' gun control walkout bodes well for March for Our Lives

About 3,000 schools took part in the mass walkout on Wednesday, a remarkable response to the lack of political action that, like shootings before, followed the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, last month.

It was a huge boost for activists before the March for Our Lives on 24 March, which will see tens of thousands of students march in cities across the US.

Some students, while still demanding action on school shootings, principally greater gun control, moved the protests beyond that to other issues.

At the Academy for Young Writers high school in Spring Creek, Brooklyn, New York, students used the walkout to bring attention also to discrimination against people of color, women, and other groups.

“Our protest brings together many things and I do empathize with those in Parkland in Florida, but this is Brooklyn, East New York, and we have our own separate struggles and I wanted to advocate for that as well,” said Nathaniel Swanson, 16.

“We have policing [issues]. Discrimination in housing [and the] workforce. Gentrification is really getting bad in Brooklyn. Gun violence … these are the things that happen in our community.”

David Hogg, a shooting survivor, speaks during the school’s walkout.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/students-walkout-gun-control-march-for-our-lives

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

What makes it a "success?" Number of marchers? If so, Charlottesville was a success.

 

[DaSleeper]

It's a yearly thing here in Canada.....

"the March Break"

Has nothing to do with Trump

 

[Danbones]

Communists always go after brainwashing the children first.
Then after they are disarmed, they have in the past, killed over a hundred million peasants.

 

[Liberalman]

Guns don't kill just people with guns kill people

 

[petros]

Huh?

 

[Hoid]

A new generation is going to carry the torch.

Our generation has failed miserably.

 

[Cliffy]

 

[Cliffy]

A Pennsylvania High School’s Plan To Punish Students For Protesting Gun Violence Backfired Spectacularly

The school suspended over 200 students who participated in Wednesday’s walkout to support gun control. The group has started calling themselves the Pennridge 225 and they haven’t stopped protesting.
The first group of students from the Pennridge 225 served their Saturday detention and, rather than sit in their assigned seats, they staged a sit-in.

http://wokesloth.com/pennridge-225-students-detention-protest/jake/

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Guns don't kill just people with guns kill people

Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.

Bullets don't kill people. The kinetic energy of the bullet kills people when it is suddenly transferred to flesh and bone from the bullet.

There really is no one else to blame but Issac Newton for his negligence of not doing anything about this killer in our midst.

 

[captain morgan]

Bullets don't kill people. The kinetic energy of the bullet kills people when it is suddenly transferred to flesh and bone from the bullet.

There really is no one else to blame but Issac Newton for his negligence of not doing anything about this killer in our midst.

When you boil it right down, it's the massive trauma resulting from the impact of the projectile.

So, now that this is all cleared up, we can safely say people kill themselves by virtue of their unwillingness to self-heal from the trauma

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

When you boil it right down, it's the massive trauma resulting from the impact of the projectile.

So, now that this is all cleared up, we can safely say people kill themselves by virtue of their unwillingness to self-heal from the trauma

When you really boil it down, Gawd knows you are going to be shot, could stop you from being hurt or killed with a thought, and loves you so much he can't be bothered.

Blessed be the name of the Lawd.

 

[Curious Cdn]

When you boil it right down, it's the massive trauma resulting from the impact of the projectile.

So, now that this is all cleared up, we can safely say people kill themselves by virtue of their unwillingness to self-heal from the trauma

"If good you think, kill you not by bullet."

Yoda.

 

[captain morgan]

When you really boil it down, Gawd knows you are going to be shot, could stop you from being hurt or killed with a thought, and loves you so much he can't be bothered.

Blessed be the name of the Lawd.

i'm more inclined to rely on a magic 8-ball for all the answers in terms of where not to be at any given time.

 

[Cliffy]

Parkland shooting survivors say the NRA is "basically threatening" them

Both Hogg and Gonzalez, who refer to themselves as members of the "mass shooting generation," say they've received death threats in response to their efforts in launching the movement. But they aren't letting threats deter them from making progress.
"There's always been people who are going to want to harm us," Gonzalez said. "I'm not going to pretend that this like opened my eyes to a cruel and harmful world ... When it comes right down to it, we already knew that this world was going to be tough. So getting death threats like that doesn't really faze us."



"I think the problem comes in when it's people at the top of this organization that don't listen to their constituents and continue to scare people into buying more guns, creating more violence, so they can scare more people and sell more guns," he continued. "The people at the top of the NRA are no longer working for the people that are in their organization. They're working on behalf of the gun lobby."



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-h...kland-florida-shooting-survivors-nra-threats/

 

[pgs]

I bet the young lady gunned down exiting an establishment over the weekend in Toronto is glad she doesn’t live in America .

 

[Hoid]

Parkland shooting survivors say the NRA is "basically threatening" them

Both Hogg and Gonzalez, who refer to themselves as members of the "mass shooting generation," say they've received death threats in response to their efforts in launching the movement. But they aren't letting threats deter them from making progress.
"There's always been people who are going to want to harm us," Gonzalez said. "I'm not going to pretend that this like opened my eyes to a cruel and harmful world ... When it comes right down to it, we already knew that this world was going to be tough. So getting death threats like that doesn't really faze us."



"I think the problem comes in when it's people at the top of this organization that don't listen to their constituents and continue to scare people into buying more guns, creating more violence, so they can scare more people and sell more guns," he continued. "The people at the top of the NRA are no longer working for the people that are in their organization. They're working on behalf of the gun lobby."



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-h...kland-florida-shooting-survivors-nra-threats/

oh I don't think there's any "basically" about it.

a standard NRA ploy is to vilify and threaten the victims.

 

[Murphy]

Silly, Waldo. The NRA is not going after them. They are going after liberals.

The plan is to let you whine and cry about the NRA. You cannot do a thing about it, but your complaints are public. Even if it was, the NRA have people that are recording all your posts and know where you live. Others too. And they use better software than the government. :lol:

You can run, but you cannot hide.

 

[Danbones]

Funny, where are the kids protesting WAR and COMMUNISM????